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Wednesday 9 February 2011

Hexagons


I'm working on a scrappy quilt at the moment, made from small rectangles of fabrics left over from previous projects.
On the right you can see the completed animal quilt waiting for a label.

I love playing with colour when making a quilt.

Addiction or is it compulsion to group my pieces as completed is difficult to resist.
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9 comments:

  1. Melody8 April 2011 at 16:27

    Fabulous colours. How wonderful.

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  2. Bev C8 April 2011 at 21:56

    This looks so colourful,now big are you making this?
    Happy days.
    Bev.xoxo

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  3. Anonymous8 April 2011 at 22:23

    what a wonderful range of colours i can see you having a lot of fun with these,well done

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  4. Carol9 April 2011 at 03:46

    Love all the colors. Looking forward to seeing how it looks made up.

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  5. Sweet Cinnamon Stitches9 April 2011 at 08:46

    What a lovely array of colour.
    Cheers....Jane.

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  6. Michelle Ridgway9 April 2011 at 09:48

    They are really neat hexagons and fabulous colours.

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  7. Sweet Pea9 April 2011 at 09:56

    Thanks so much for all the encouraging comments! Bev C. I'm hoping to make it 46x66 inch! Ideally, it will have alternating rows of the long hexagons and equal sided smaller hexagons. I have made 150 of the long hexagons with about 240 to go and I need to make almost 300 of the smaller hexagons! I was going to make it a charm quilt...but maybe it will be a scrappy quilt instead. I know that in the past, charm quilts were made using up 1000 DIFFERENT fabrics...
    Of course this is a long term project, one to complete in front of the tv, at night. So Carol...you might be waiting some time to see the end result. Will post progress of course.

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  8. RG10 April 2011 at 17:27

    Hi Sweet Pea, thanks for linking up to our Hexie colourful friday.
    Your hexies are lovely and your quilt will be stunning.
    Have you ever checked out the Great Hexagon Quilt-along blogs...there's lots to see there too.
    http://hexagonquilt-along.blogspot.com/

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  9. Sweet Pea14 April 2011 at 17:38

    Thanks Robyn. I checked out your GHQalong blog and loved the post on A New Hexagon Project from May 2009. Def. given me a new perspective on hexagons! I must give the crosses a go. Will check out more of the GHQalong and of course the GHQalongtoo. Keep up the good work. (Check out this link to understand how much I appreciate blogs like these): http://lifeisapumpkin.blogspot.com/2011/04/together-we-quilt.html
    Sweet Pea.

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